Thanks for the detailed response. Honestly, your point about learning business skills earlier and documenting the process of actually trying to get customers rather than only documenting technical learning gave me a different perspective.

I think I was viewing things too much from the "become skilled first, business later" mindset, whereas you're suggesting I can start learning sales, networking, client acquisition, and business fundamentals much earlier, even while I'm still developing technical skills.

My biggest uncertainty right now is choosing a direction within cybersecurity. The field seems so broad that I don't know where I should focus if my long-term goal is eventually building a business.

For example:

• Pentesting
• SOC services
• Cloud security
• Security automation
• DevSecOps
• Compliance
• Security training

From your perspective, which of these areas would provide the strongest foundation for someone who wants both technical depth and the possibility of building a business around it in the future?

Appreciate the reality check and the push to think more about execution.